Ijaw

Acknowledged as one of the foremost living playwrights of the world, Wole Soyinka is the first African Nobel laureate who was awarded the covetous Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. As a playwright, Wole Soyinka has basically operated within two categories – the tragic and the satiric.Although the dramatic form itself and the Western generic categories are Western import, Soyinka has injected fresh energies into every genre by the incorporation of traditional Yoruba elements. Soyinka’s dramas…

because of lack of engagement in the village. This orchestrated encounter extends to the youths and women in the community who antagonize the leadership of their purported alliance with the oil companies’ interest to make sure we are all fighting.The Ijaws, Urhobos, Itsekiris and the Ogonis.The government is supplying different groups with weapons Rocket Launchers! I heard some are hiring the weapons from the government and police and paying for their hire! This is genocide!’(122).The policies…

Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of,…